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They range from a whimsical Calder drawing of Skating Animals (10(j) to a cardboard construction by Mon Levinson (issued in a limited edition at $1.00, and actually as much a Christmas gift as a Christmas card). The Museum's Christmas brochure describes and illustrates the cards; also includes information on other Museum publícations and a special Christmas gift membership form. The 25ct price can be deducted from any order amounting to over $5.00. The Museum of Modern Art 65 4 5300 Grand Central Station, New York 10017 I enclose 25çt for the 1965 Christmas brochure Name Address aire, Charles; and the handsome mav- erick, AntoIne, semi-kept by forty-year- old Diane, and a bargain he is, too. The scenes of Lucile's and Antoine's love affair are the most believable parts of the book. Sagan's literary gift is for the heat of the emotions and for the ardent enigma of love. Farced by Antoine to come live openly and hon- estly with h m, and, worst of all, even to take an ill-paid job, since his job, in a publishing house, is like that, too, Lucile refuses to go to a cheap abor- tionist-their only solution In her re- volt against having a child in uncom- fortable poverty. So he takes her to a costly Geneva clinic on the complacent Charles's money. In one of those final chapters the length of a postscript which are typical of Sagan, the reader learns the novel's happy ending-that two years later Charles and Lucile get married. In other words, Lucile beats a retreat, as the book's title makes clear. "Weare not made for legality, you and I," she had said to Antoine in a moment of clarity and revolt, nonconformism being her version of liberty. She wanted the responsibility of possessing nothing-neither a child (Mme. Sagan has a little son, now three years old) nor a husband nor a house nor an occupation. She wanted only to be furnished wIth the elements of life, as if her soul were like a modern furnished apartment in which she lived but owned nothing. She is the full-length portrait of a lucid, superior cocotte, such as no other contemporary novelist has çreated, painted almost en- tirely on the surface. "La Chamade" will probably arouse a certaIn amount of disapproval even in Paris, because of Mme. Sagan's im- portance and her popularity with wom- en readers in France, because of the lack of conventional hypocrisy that her characters show in leading their own lives, and because of her presenting them as if they were acting normally in the Fifth Republic. There will be talk in Church circles against the lead- ing role she has given to une société pourrie-a rotten society. One literary critic has already referred to La dolce vita and to "the demimonde in which Mme. Sagan has lived." 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